Trick to avoiding bots is to: * never add followers of very recent creation date * ignore followers of lopsided ratio of followers * mentally map and gauge r

Trick to avoiding bots is to: * never add followers of very recent creation date * ignore followers of lopsided ratio of followers * mentally map and gauge responses before adding followers * always block those likes on your tweets who have met above criterions. Hardest part of maintaining your clean bot-free Twitter account is re-reviewing your 5K followers for bot-like profile. Until most of above are fixed, the decline of natural and organic Twitter membership will continue.